PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

LongsightM13 said:
Yeah but he could also have also stayed where he was in Spain, London office or the chairman’s suite.
The fact he was so visible and was even pressing the flesh and working the room with the comparative scruffs in the Legends Lounge was absolutely unprecedented.
He was also extremely unguarded in his comments and called the premier league ‘these bastards’
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Well he’s right on that one. The silence is deafening on this now. let’s hope it’s a good sign!
 
Interesting to see the Daily Fail’s attempts to get the allegations they’re facing in the current phone hacking case thrown out on procedural grounds at the High Court earlier today - thereby avoiding having to answer to the substance of the accusations.

Relying on procedural arguments apparently no longer being an approach which - in their view, when referenced by CAS in City’s case - clearly constitutes nefarious practice, and which they loudly trumpeted as apparently clear evidence of our guilt in the charges we faced at UEFA/CAS.

It was also particularly amusing to observe that one of the two key arguments they’re using in having the case dismissed is that any evidence should be considered to be ‘time barred’ as it took place 10 years ago, and should therefore be inadmissible.

Sound familiar?

Hypocritical cunts are happy to use the fact we didn’t have to face the charge around our Etisalat sponsorship (due to it being time barred) as confirmation we ‘got off on a technicality’ and therefore must be guilty of disguising owner funding in that case.

Which of course clearly leads to the conclusion that, by extension, we must also be guilty of the whole fucking lot.

Yet when it’s them doing it - it’s all tickety-boo and there's nothing at all to be read into it!

Mind you, they’ve actually had the temerity to call upon the EU-derived Human Rights Act as a defence against naming the journalists in question - which, given their historic positions on both the EU and the Act itself, is quite staggeringly audacious in its hypocrisy.

So a touch more mendacity into the mix should be considered par for the course for our pals at the Fail!
 
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Nicholas van Whatsisface said:
Interesting to see the Daily Fail’s attempts to get the allegations they’re facing in the current phone hacking case thrown out on procedural grounds at the High Court earlier today - thereby avoiding having to answer to the substance of the accusations.

Relying on procedural arguments apparently no longer being an approach which - in their view, when referenced by CAS in City’s case - clearly constitutes nefarious practice, and which they loudly trumpeted as apparently clear evidence of our guilt in the charges we faced at UEFA/CAS.

It was also particularly amusing to observe that one of the two key arguments they’re using in having the case dismissed is that any evidence should be considered to be ‘time barred’ as it took place 10 years ago, and should therefore be inadmissible.

Sound familiar?

Hypocritical cunts are happy to use the fact we didn’t have to face the charge around our Etisalat sponsorship (due to it being time barred) as confirmation we ‘got off on a technicality’ and therefore must be guilty of disguising owner funding in that case.

Which of course clearly leads to the conclusion that, by extension, we must also be guilty of the whole fucking lot.

Yet when it’s them doing it - it’s all tickety-boo and there's nothing at all to be read into it!

Mind you, they’ve actually had the temerity to call upon the EU-derived Human Rights Act as a defence against naming the journalists in question - which, given their historic positions on both the EU and the Act itself, is quite staggeringly audacious in its hypocrisy.

So a touch more mendacity into the mix should be considered par for the course for our pals at the Fail!
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Fantastic post, well played sir
 
Holcombe bloo said:
Im glad he was pal, I just like to see the funny side, maybe it’s my coping mechanism through all this bullshit!
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No apology needed pal
He was proper on one mate, seemed to take it all very personally as an insult to both his professionalism and his personal integrity
Certainly increased my confidence!
 
Bald fraud said:
Well he’s right on that one. The silence is deafening on this now. let’s hope it’s a good sign!
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While I'm hugely encouraged by City's and Soriano's bullishness, I'm not reading too much into the current silence. It was always going to be a big news story in those first few days but eventually other stories start to grab the headlines with this one naturally fading away until there is something new to report. Of course, it could also be that City have "had a word" with regards to some of the more inflammatory and accusatory pieces which might be adding to the lack of reporting for now.
 
M18CTID said:
While I'm hugely encouraged by City's and Soriano's bullishness, I'm not reading too much into the current silence. It was always going to be a big news story in those first few days but eventually other stories start to grab the headlines with this one naturally fading away until there is something new to report. Of course, it could also be that City have "had a word" with regards to some of the more inflammatory and accusatory pieces which might be adding to the lack of reporting for now.
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Alvarez signing an extension and the North stand development is providing the clues on what is happening. Although we put down the money to bring Alvarez here he is at the beginning of his career and could go where he likes. If City were having their wings clipped with fines, Point deductions, transfer bans it would have an affect on him and his career with team recruitment going forward. He has however put pen to paper.

You also don’t start making plans for extending the North stand and putting a hotel behind it if City’s hierarchy think we have a case to answer to from the Premier league. If the mood music is correct coming from the club it will be interesting seeing how the Premier league tries to secretly make the investigation vanish. A lot of this has played out behind closed doors, we won’t see a blow by blow account of what’s going on and Soriano lighting up a cigar outside the high court once vindicated. We could be in the end game of it all now.

If this plays out that way in fully exonerated, what happens to the media and all those clubs and their supporters who tried to brand City as cheats? Potentially two different panels in the CAS and whoever the Premier league has nominated will have found City not guilty. Where will these people go to hoping for the club’s demise?
 
M18CTID said:
While I'm hugely encouraged by City's and Soriano's bullishness, I'm not reading too much into the current silence. It was always going to be a big news story in those first few days but eventually other stories start to grab the headlines with this one naturally fading away until there is something new to report. Of course, it could also be that City have "had a word" with regards to some of the more inflammatory and accusatory pieces which might be adding to the lack of reporting for now.
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There again maybe the PL now being threatened by an independent Gov Regulator is demonstrating how capable it is in controlling leaks?
 
M18CTID said:
While I'm hugely encouraged by City's and Soriano's bullishness, I'm not reading too much into the current silence. It was always going to be a big news story in those first few days but eventually other stories start to grab the headlines with this one naturally fading away until there is something new to report. Of course, it could also be that City have "had a word" with regards to some of the more inflammatory and accusatory pieces which might be adding to the lack of reporting for now.
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Yeah, silence is neither here nor there. There's nothing new to report and nothing left to speculate on. I was in two minds about whether the hearings should happen behind closed doors, as it can be frustrating and leaves many of our defences unheard by the public, but reckon the absence of the media circus is probably a good thing for both parties. Like others have indicated, everyone at City is categorically convinced that there is no case to answer here excluding non-cooperation. That isn't bolshie chatter for the public, that's a deeply held belief.
 
Nicholas van Whatsisface said:
Mind you, they’ve actually had the temerity to call upon the EU-derived Human Rights Act as a defence against naming the journalists in question - which, given their historic positions on both the EU and the Act itself, is quite staggeringly audacious in its hypocrisy.
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Bizarrely, by the time the 2016 referendum took place, this shitstain of a media outlet was actually backing remain.
 
Dribble said:
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According to this report, UEFA are now looking at allowing multi-club ownership, just 4 weeks after saying the model threatens the integrity of European competitions. They now apparently believe it'll have no material effect on European matches.

The sudden about turn has absolutely nothing to do with the Qataris who already own PSG looking to buy ManUre, & who have their man on the UEFA board.

Cynical me.... :-/

https://www.footballinsider247.com/...cope-as-details-of-uefa-ban-revealed-sources/
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That will send another UEFA exec barmy. Step forward Teabag.
 
Exeter Blue I am here said:
I'm constantly amazed at the number of people who don't believe that the media indulges in systematic bias against certain clubs, when they absolutely do. I'm similarly amazed by those people who will acknowledge the possibility of political bias on the front pages of particular newspapers, but deny the same possibility when it comes to the back pages.
Just taking the Mail as an example, every article comes with a comments section. The paper's aim is to ensure that as many people as possible click on those articles, in order that they might maximise the advertising revenue central to their continued existence. It does this on the front pages by appealing to its largest readership demographic. Endless negative stories about lefties, teachers, lazy public servants, Meghan Markle, soft judges, asylum seekers, the cancel culture, 'militant' unions, remoaners, Gary Lineker etc etc are always the order of the day, because the Mail knows its foam flecked gammon army will hammer away with such fury that their keyboards will catch fire.
As to the back pages then, which two clubs have far and away the biggest fan bases in this country? And which club do you think is an oven ready enemy for both, having deprived them of hundreds of millions in prize money and trophies since 2011? Once you've joined the dots by answering those two questions, the penny should drop. City have been portrayed as football ruining, cheating, nouveau riche, sportswashing, plastic, no European pedigree, obscene spending (complete with squad cost comparisons, once famously when we weren't even one of the teams playing), human rights abusing, dodgy Arab owned, corrupt, 'dirty' oil money funded, success buying filth, non-stop for 15 years now, and our 'guilt' as regards the current PL investigation has long since been declared as fact.
Other papers, most notably the Guardian, have clear editorial policies when it comes to City and I defy you to find a single article from Miguel Delaney, Barney Ronay, Jonathan Liew etc that doesn't contain at least one of the phrases "state owned project", "oil funded" or "sportswashing". I've seen other journalists call our fans 'grubby apologists' and 'filthy rats', I've seen domestic broadcasters stuff their panels with rag pundits for our European games and listened to them call us mercenaries and wait until the half time interval to pan the camera around the crowd and sneer at us for having empty seats, and I've turned on the radio and heard us called "disgusting" and a "Frankenstein club". It's been relentless and no other club has ever had to put up with an onslaught of even remotely comparable degree. It doesn't mean that all journalists and broadcasters are out to get us, but compared to our immediate rivals we're a country mile ahead in the vilification stakes
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BOOM.
 
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